Folks -

After the positive feedback about Facelift and Botox I've taken the 
liberty to add those changes to the trunk and consequently bring them 
down upon you ;-) The idea here is that you can try them and form an 
informed opinion. The main question that you should ask yourself is 
whether you feel that the updated look is an improvement over the 
previous look. Personally, I'm answering this question with a resounding 
"Yes!"; I think we've greatly improved the out of the box experience.

The work is by no means finished. We do need better colors for the 
windows; they don't work too well right now. We also need better 
performance, the look is *very* slow right now (but fixing that is easy; 
I just need to find a spare minute). Help on any or all of these issues 
is greatly welcome.

As a consequence of the need for a custom background (the blue gradient 
doesn't work at all with the Facelift look), I've also started the first 
round of project refactoring, which makes Project an abstract class and 
splits MVCProject and MorphicProject so that the base system only needs 
to know about projects abstractly, and the concrete project types are 
bound to the UI environment they belong to (meaning that unloading MVC 
will rid us of any traces of MVC in Project). That had been on my list 
for a while already and I finally got a start on it. Help is welcome 
here, too, in particular in the areas of moving the responsibilities 
around into the proper subclasses and fixing those #isMorphic calls by 
vectoring them through Project current instead (see 
DisplayScreen>>restore for an example).

All in all, I think that this is reason enough to put an updated image 
onto squeak.org. You can download it (with all updates as of today) as:

   http://ftp.squeak.org/trunk/Squeak3.10.2-Trunk-090919.zip

It has all the changes applied and also a small window listing recent 
additions to the trunk image. It's getting quite a collection!

Cheers,
   - Andreas